

Carmageddon Max Pack
Stainless Games Ltd · 2026 · Combat Racing, Racing, Gore, Action, Classic
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About Carmageddon Max Pack
Carmageddon is a freeform driving game where you race, wreck opponents, and rack up points by mowing down pedestrians and cows across destructible real-world environments. It's the anarchic, physics-pioneering demolition derby that was banned worldwide for letting you choose chaos over racing, complete with power-ups, 30 unlockable vehicles, and cops that hunt you down when you get too wild.
Carmageddon is the original freeform driving sensation, where pedestrians (and cows!) equal points, and your opponents are a bunch of crazies in a twisted mix of automotive killing machines. The game features anarchic drive-wherever-you-like gameplay and over-the-top surreal comedy violence. It’s the racing game where racing is for wimps.Now the same Mac & PC classic that was BANNED AROUND THE WORLD is back!
Carmageddon features real-world environments that have been turned into killing fields, where the locals stay out on the streets at their peril. As well as using your car as a weapon, every level is sprinkled generously with power-ups that have a vast variety of mad effects, adding a whole extra level of craziness to the proceedings. In every event you have the option to “play it your way”… Waste all your opponents, kill every pedestrian, or (perish the thought) complete all the laps. Oh and watch out – the cops in their super-tough armoured patrol vehicles are lurking, and if they catch you being bad they’ll be down on you like several tons of cold pork.
"Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! Members of the public, you have ONE minute to reach minimum safe distance!"- Crazy range of vehicles and drivers, each with their own personality and driving style.
- The game that pioneered true 3D physics,
- The game that pioneered dynamic vehicle damage
- The game that pioneered splattering grannies. And cows.
- In fact, splatter a wide range of seriously scared pedestrians.
- 28 dangerously deranged Opponents
- 11 wildly exhilarating Environments
- Career Mode featuring 36 satisfyingly violent Levels
- Race and Wreck opponents to unlock 30 playable cars!
- Over 40 fun-packed Power Ups and “Power Downs”.
- Great open world track design allowing complete freedom to explore.
- Hidden bonus areas to find.
- Ludicrously satisfying, arcade-style gameplay.
The aim is for the player to work their way up the ranking system, from 99th place to first. The player vehicle is pitted against a number of computer controlled competitors, in locations such as cities, mines and desert towns. Levels can be beaten in one of three ways:- Completing all the laps of the race course, as one would a normal racing game.
- "Wasting" (wrecking) all the opponents vehicles.
- Killing all the pedestrians in the area.
Each level has a time limit, but more time may be gained by passing through checkpoints, collecting powerups, damaging/destroying the competitors' cars, and by running over pedestrians (with bonuses awarded for style).
These actions also reward the player with Credits, which can be used to make instant repairs or recover the car (after falling down a chasm, for example). They can also be used to upgrade Armour, Power and Offense stats in the Parts Shop between races. This is also the time to switch which car to drive if others have been obtained.
As well as opponents partaking in the 'race', some levels also contain a number of heavily armored Cop Cars, which will activate their sirens and hound the player when provoked. They can be attacked and destroyed, but do not count as opponents. A single "Super Squad Car" exists in one level, and it can be claimed if destroyed.
An Action Replay with multiple camera viewpoints is available at any point during a race.
Carmageddon won the “Game of the Year” trophy in the 1997 PC Zone Reader awards. Carmageddon 1 & 2 were “Driving Game of the Year” 1997/1998.
SELECTED REVIEWS OF THE ORIGINAL GAME
Originally released for the PC in 1997, Carmageddon was an instant hit and the titles went on to sell over 2 million copies worldwide. Here’s what a sample of the gaming press thought at the time:
“Carmageddon is visceral, violent, vehicular fun...” - GameSpot 8.8 out of 10
“Carmageddon, to get straight to the point, is one of the best computer games I've ever played… Carmageddon is God!” - Duncan McDonald 95% Classic Award PC Zone Magazine
“Carmageddon is one of those games that only come along once in a blue moon. An essential purchase.” - Escape Magazine 6 out of 6
“The gameplay is spot on and anyone with a dark enough sense of humour should give it a go.” - Computer Gaming World 4 out of 5
“So next time you gun down coppers on GTA VI, just remember, Carmageddon’s controversy was there first, and you have a lot to thank it for.” - RetroGarden
Carmageddon is the first of a series of graphically violent driving-oriented video games. It was conceived and developed by Stainless Games, published by SCi and released June 30, 1997 on PC & Mac.It was, and remains, a poster child for video game controversy. The controversy surrounded the game's central premise; that of earning reward for running down innocent pedestrians.
The game was notable for its realistic and ground-breaking physics, and for its in-game action replay features. It was also one of the earliest examples of a sandbox 3D driving game, and may have influenced other later games including the Driver and Grand Theft Auto series.
ABOUT STAINLESS GAMES
Stainless was founded in 1994 by Patrick Buckland, a veteran of the games industry going back to the Jurassic period of 1982, and Neil Barnden, who used to have hair like a mammoth. A team of 8 worked on the original Carmageddon at Stainless, and 5 are still with the company today, although a couple of them are now kept manacled in a small padded room in the cellar.
Stainless Games now employs around one hundred mad, dedicated people of assorted gender, height and width. They can all be found dangling precariously from a small chalky rock just off the South Coast of England.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Ah, this brings back so many memories from my childhood, like when my mom came to check what her 2 really young kids were giggling about, and just to see a big herd of cows just squished xD [quote]Follow us for more stupidly fun [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45205361-Boom-Boom-Bros/] Massacres![/url] [/quote]2 found this helpful
Full of issues but a lot of fun. I had trouble getting it to start reliably. Sometimes the screen would just go blank and other times it worked. Changing between 3dfx and software rendering seemed to help sometimes. It's also a very low resolution game especially in software rendering mode but it still looks good because it has a lot of character. The cars wobble a lot and are hard to steer and it's annoying but I think it's part of what makes the game so much fun. The problem is that you can get motion sickness and it affected me despite never getting motion sickness from any other games. There is a lot of violence. You have to ram pedestrians for points and the game just celebrates violence in a way that I have not seen in any other game. If you can get it to work and don't get motion sickness then it's a fun game and it's hard to believe it came out in 1997 because it's better than a lot of racing games these days. It's begging for a remake.1 found this helpful
This game cured my erectile dysfunction!1 found this helpful
It works on Windows 11, mid high tier. If the glide 3dfx is lagging and total ♥♥♥♥. Go to steam folder where Carma1 is, go to DOSBOX and find the .dll of glide2x and just rename it to anything else and it'll run. Remember, this is an OLD GAME. Textures may undulate when going slow, and it may only run in 60 frames. But this is the original that started it and what SCI which they had when they remade it with their recent game.
Cons: it's a game from 1997 Pros: it's a game from 1997 It's exactly as I remember it to be from childhood. With some simple editing, the graphics are decent enough, not great, but at least not an eyesore.
I don't know if it's just me, but this game's controls are [i]atrocious[/i] for what's supposed to be a racing game. Even compared to other games of the time like Ridge Racer, Cruis'n USA, San Francisco Rush, even Vigilante 8 and Twisted Metal, Carmageddon 1 (not helped by the fact that you're basically limited to Keyboard controls), feels less like you're driving a car, and feels more like you're driving a brick of lead that's been molded into the shape of a car. I get the cars are supposed to be armored, but jeez. The game looks FANTASTIC for a 1997 DOS release (especially since you can change the game's resolution from the provided nGlide wrapper config, just go to the install diectory and look in the "DOSBOX" folder), The general design and colors are striking, the models are nicely made and deform believably, the environments and sprite-work are expertly done. But holy hell I've driven more nimble machines while playing a truck simulator! I bet if this game was remade so it could use modern controllers, I'd have a much better time getting the hang of things... Until then, I guess I'll try putting in a few laps around the game's tracks to try and get a feel for things.
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